A fun journey through the realm of Tattoo laws and regulations. Also for Jess, I get a bounce-back on your emails but noticed we have similar interests:
Run a word search for "tattoo" or "Mike Royko" on my blawg and you will see a very tangled web of hatred for Tattoo artists. There also is a re-cap on the website at the "documents" button. Also, AIDS was involved and the state totally dogged my guy, made him sound like a villain when he was an AIDS activist; he and I and Attorney Pope had approached the Boards of Health for safe and effective regulations prior to the whole case!! The State totally ignored his First Amendment "bad canvas" argument.
http://christopher-king.blogspot.com/...
Also, I don't know if you still need help with that Drug Sentencing thing, but a former boss of mine, Terry Gilbert has been very active in that whole area and other legal reform as well; shoot me an email if you like.
http://www.usdoj.gov/...